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Using Web Browser


                 For several years, the Web remained a tool used by scientific researchers. But in 1993,

                 developers at the National Center  for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA)  created
                 Mosaic, a point and click Web browser. A Web browser is a software application designed to

                 find hypertext documents on the Web and then open the documents on the user’s computer.
                 Commonly used web browsers are Google Chrome, Microsoft Edge, Mozilla Firefox, etc.


                   Launching Your Browser


                 You may  need to connect to the  Internet  before launching the                                            INTERNET
                 browser. Once you have established a connection, launch your browser
                 by following these steps:

                 Step 1:  Click on the Start button on the taskbar.                                                       101

                 Step 2:   Click  on  the  browser  app  such  as  Microsoft Edge.  The            Launching a Web
                          Microsoft Edge window will appear.                                           Browser




                                   If you could write a blog post that would be read by every person in the world,

                                   what message or story would you share?




                  Using URLs


                 You have learnt in the previous class that every Web page has a unique address, called a

                 Uniform Resource Locator, or URL. URLs help you to navigate the web. When you provide
                 a URL to the browser, the browser finds that URL’s Web page and then transfers the Web
                 page to your PC. The content of the web page then appears in the Web browser window.

                 You can specify a URL in several ways, but two methods are commonly used:


                   Using Address Bar


                 To access a webpage by URL, follow these simple steps:

                 Step 1:  Type the URL in the browser’s Address bar.

                 Step 2:  Press the Enter key from the keyboard.

                 Suppose, you want to visit the wikipedia. To do this, you can type www.wikipedia.org in the
                 Address bar and then press Enter key. The home page of Google Wikipedia in the browser
                 window will appear.
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